Hawaii

The Hawaiian Punch is gone, felled by too much humanity. All the time, viewers and announcers were commenting on his being tentative and reluctance to go for for the kill. So Brian Viloria goes for another loss. Chavit, a no mean gambler, already warned him back when he was champion. "You lack the killer's instinct," Chavit told Brian during the latter's champion's homecoming which we covered. He was just recovering from a broken heart when he came home. I made a mistake of discovering that in his myspace, which I then quoted. From then on, he made his site restricted to friends. I think he is still recovering from a broken heart and it took all the fight from him.
Don is dead. Don who? Yes, Don Ho is dead. (pathetic laugh)
The guy who sang "Tiny Bubbles" is dead. I remembered that song because we sang to it back when I was in Grade II. Still have that photo. Me and Bernardo Abad, my best friend, and Ferdinand Galace, now an unproductive alcoholic, and Mauricio Cajigan, who is now a woman in New York.
Back when we were Grade II, we sang that as "Tiny bubbles in Hawaii/ Make me feel happy make me feel fine."
We imagined the tiny bubbles in the surf of Hawaii. Only later did I know it was about bubbling wine.
We can forgive the shy Viloria. In fact, I dedicated a poem for him entitled, "The Evolution of the Bolo Punch."
I hope Don Ho will forgive us.
Tiny bubbles (tiny bubbles)in the wine (in the wine. Make me happy (make me happy)
Make me feel fine (make me feel fine). Tiny bubbles (tiny bubbles)Make me warm all over/ With a feeling that I'm gonna/ Love you till the end of time/ So here's to the golden moon/ And here's to the silver sea/ And mostly here's a toast/ To you and me.